A medical instrument used to view inside the human body by inserting the instrument into a natural or created aperture. The endoscope may use a coherent Fiber optic Bundle or conventional optics to relay the image to the eye or a television camera. Illumination is provided by a concentric bundle of noncoherent fiber optics.
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